gille

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

gille

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of gillen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gilla; compare English child, Old English ċild. Zimmer thinks it is borrowed from Old Norse gildr (stout, brawny, of full worth); compare English guild, Old English gild (payment) (see geall), gilda (fellow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʲiʎə/

Noun

gille m (genitive gille, plural gillean, vocative 'ille)

  1. (dated) servant, follower
  2. boy, lad, youth (male aged from the toddler years to about the middle twenties)
  3. man, boy (as a familiar address for a male of any age)
  4. (Wester Ross) unmarried man of any age, bachelor
    Antonym: duine (dialectally)

Declension

Declension of gille (class IId masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative gille gillean
genitive gille ghillean
dative gille gillean
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) gille (na) gillean
genitive (a') ghille (nan) gillean
dative (a') ghille (na) gillean
vocative ghille ghillean

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Mutation

Mutation of gille
radical lenition
gille ghille

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gildi.

Noun

gille n

  1. feast
  2. guild

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